Yesterday our whole small group traveled to Indianapolis for Carla and Ryan's wedding. Here is a bad picture of our small group. (I'm hoping someone will send me a better one; we had like, 5 people taking our picture. We're just that fabulous.)The ceremony was beautiful! I love how Catholics make it such a big thing. I like that it's a longer ceremony with communion and everything. Carla's dress was gorgeous- I love that dark red accent! The fall colors were just perfect.
Besides being a really good time, Carla and Ryan also had a "green wedding." It was so nice to have a vegetarian option at dinner. And their rings are made from recycled gold! Carla is definitely one of the coolest people I know. Whenever I'm trying to figure something out at small group, she's the one with the wise words. In fact, she is the one who came up with the Incubator name and designed our tee-shirts. Can you tell we really love being a group? If you look closely at our picture, you will see that Carla is holding our mascot, the chick. It goes everywhere important with us- it was with Sandy and Cyndee when they got arrested at this prayer protest thing in D.C., it was with me when I went to the overseas job fair, it went to Europe with at least one of us, and countless other places I can't think of off the top of my head. Abby might have even taken it to South Africa with her.
There is one other thing about yesterday that was so cool, to me at least. Three of our members moved away within the past few months- Liz moved back to Florida, Sandy moved to D.C. for law school, and Abby moved to Boston for grad school. We miss them so much! But I thought it was so cool that yesterday, while we were all at the wedding, Abby and Sandy found each other out on the East Coast and went to New York for the day. I think that's really a testimony to the strength of our group. We're so different, and we definitely have our disagreements, but we are sisters in Christ, and that's the important thing. We started out now knowing each other at all (seriously, I don't know how we even all got together; very few of us knew each other before we started), but now we're like family.
Here are a few more pictures of us, since that first group picture is not so good. The first is at Kris's baptism in the lake last summer. The second one is the benefit for Breakthrough Ministries last year (we used to volunteer for them).
I have grown so much and had such a good time with these girls. They are a huge blessing to me!
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